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Townhall
Tea Party:
Learn From Al Gore
Ann Coulter
Jul 09, 2014
Chris McDaniel, candidate for the U.S. Senate from Mississippi, lost
the Republican runoff to incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran last month, and
now he is being led down a primrose path to political oblivion.
McDaniel's passionate supporters think that a moment of crisis for the
country is a good time to treat control of the Senate as if it's a prom
queen election.
Hoping for yet a third primary vote, McDaniel's crew is going to
prevent him from having any political career, ever again.
Observe that no one is asking Al Gore to run again, except maybe his
cardiologist. Even in cases of actual vote fraud, history shows that
the contesting politicians get branded as sore losers and destroy their
political careers. Better to be magnanimous and live to fight another
day.
Here are a few examples:
-- Richard Nixon had the 1960 presidential election stolen from him,
when Chicago Mayor Richard Daley produced enough votes in Cook County
to give Kennedy an 8,858-vote margin out of 4.7 million votes cast
statewide. Nixon was publicly gracious, and eight years later he was
elected president.
-- California Republican Bob Dornan had his 1996 congressional
re-election stolen from him. The Los Angeles Times, the Fair Elections
Group and the House of Representatives all found massive evidence of
voter fraud involving illegal aliens and other ineligible voters.
Dornan contested the election -- and it ended his career. In a matchup
two years later against the vote fraud-beneficiary, Loretta Sanchez,
Dornan lost.
-- In 2002, Republican John Thune had a U.S. Senate election in South
Dakota openly stolen from him in his race against the Democratic
incumbent, Tim Johnson.
Thune was ahead in the polls throughout election night and well into
the morning. But, strangely, one county's votes had still not been
reported as of 6 a.m. the following morning: Shannon County -- Indian
country.
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